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Same happened to me recently. Thanks Slaven (for the report AND for looking for a probable cause) and CPAN Testers! I've come to rely * a lot* on the CPAN testers for picking up obscure issues in my code. This...

Eugene gave me co-maint of DateTime-Calendar-Pataphysical back in April 2014, so he was active somewhat recently. I contacted him via email at the address pijll at cpan dot org and he replied with pijll at gmx dot net....

Git::Database is yet another module I wrote to interact with Git. It wraps an OO-layer around Git objects (blobs, trees, commits, tags), in a way that's very similar to what Git::PurePerl does. It has no opinion on the actual means to get the…

I'm using the title-based approach too, for the same reasons. I've also switched to putting only the function/method name in the title (as it makes the HTML anchor simpler), and putting a code example below in a verbatim block (which...

Actually, the French Perl Mongers have a claim for prior art. We have been using the name "patch" for our irregular hackathons since 2013: patch -p0 patch -p2 The patch -p2 hackathon in Lyon is over patch -p3 We're very...

I attended the Perl QA Hackathon 2016 in Rugby. I didn't come with any specific projects, and planned to participate in some of the discussions, help others if possible, learn a bit of Perl 6 and if all else failed, work on some of my own CPAN…

At some point in the past (2003?), "Learning Perl" was split in two, the second half being published as "Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules". That second half was then renamed "Intermediate Perl". So I think a far comparison should...

I think it would probably be best if the software in question was NOT just a CPAN module. I.e. it should be a complete program, not only a library (or a set of libraries). That restriction (program versus library) does...

Regarding a rework of Module::CoreList... I'm interested in writing another module with the same kind of role: Git::Features. At first, I thought about stealing from Module::CoreList, or convincing BinGOs to upload Module::CoreList::TieHashDelta as a separate module I could use. Now...

I also host an inner archivist, and he definitely likes the idea of saving a git bundle somewhere, thus allowing the actual shutdown of any online (in)activity (github et al). I will probably use the same technique for my three...

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+100. I completely concur. Even though I do CI on all of my modules, it can't compare to the CPAN Testers, especially those like Slaven who go out of their way to investigate the problem and send personal emails regarding them.

Slaven's the real MVP here: Sending in reports is great, and thanks to everyone who does that (see the leaderboard here: http://stats.cpantesters.org/testers.html), but taking the time to follow up on reports, track down root causes, and submit issue reports to the appropriate issue tracker is nothing short of heroic.

A lot goes in to running a tester, and CPAN would not be the amazing and stable library of Perl code without them.

Emphatically yes!. And Slaven has just done it for me again, in RT 118910, in which I was too casual about the placement of a helper routine, forgetting that it was called (indirectly) in a use constant.

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